ORDINARY MEETING.* 

 Professor Edward Hull, LL.D., F.R.S.. in the Chair. 



The Minutes of tlie last Meeting wei^e read and confirmed, and the 

 following elections took place : — 



Associates : — S. Beswick, Esq., U.S.A. ; A. S. Haile, Esq., London ; 

 C. Sharpe, Esq., late H.B.M. Consul, Costa Eica, Sussex ; Eev. R. J. 

 Campbell, Sussex. 



The following paper was then read : — 



'' nationality:' — LIKENESSES AND DIF- 

 FERENCES WHICH POINT TO MANY RACES 

 MAKING UP WHAT ARE CALLED NATION- 

 ALITIES. By Professor T. McKenny Hughes, F.R.S. 



Introduction ; Eace and Nation ; Nationality. 



Formation of Races and Nations; America; Mediterranean; Cattle; 



Volga ; Baltic. 

 Examples of persistent racial characters — 

 Ancient Greece. 



East Anglia, Yorkshire and Lowlands of Scotland, Highlands, Ireland. 

 Wales ; Language ; Physical Characters ; English and Flemings, 

 Baltic and Noi'se immigrants ; Saxon invasions ; Eomans ; Pre- 

 Eoman tribes ; Silures and Demetse ; Glamorgan, Carmarthen, 

 and Cardigan; Ordovices and Cangi(?), Gwyr Ardiidwy and 

 Gwyddelod ; Marriage by capture ; Cochion Caio, Libyans, 

 Eed Arabs, Amorites, Votiaks. Common origin in North Asia. 

 Nationcditi] ; Conclusion. 



Introduction. 



THE proper study of mankind is man : but of that vast 

 subject we can only attemj^t to follow one small branch 

 this evening. The particular line of enquiry which I propose 

 for your consideration is, however, one for whicJi we have 

 the material around us everyAvhere — one Avhich requires the 

 co-operation of many, and one, therefore, whicliis suitable for 

 discussion by a society like this. 



I have often amused myself when travelling abroad or 

 walking about some great town at home by trying to make 

 out from the faces of the passers-by the answer to some 



* May 1st, 1899. 



